Vegan Fluffy Tsoureki: Greek Sweet Bread
Delicious, fluffy and vegan? What else do you want? Try the best recipe for Easter Tsoureki and enjoy the process and the final result as never before!
Ingredients
For the pre-ferment:
- 10 g dry yeast
- 15 g granulated sugar
- 15 g flour for tsoureki
- 120 ml almond milk
For the dough:
- 700 g tsoureki flour
- 110 ml almond milk
- 150 ml orange juice
- 100 ml sunflower oil
- 100 g granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 tsp mastic (masticha)
- 1/3 tsp cardamom
- 1/2 tsp mahlep
- zest of 3 oranges
- 1 pinch of salt
For the coating:
- 40 ml almond milk
- 1 tbsp molasses
- sliced almonds
Instructions
For the pre-ferment:
- Starting with the pre-ferment, put the dry yeast, sugar, flour and almond milk in a bowl and use a hand whisk to mix them well. Cover the mixture and set it aside for 20 minutes to activate the yeast.
For the dough:
- Continuing with the dough, add the almond milk, orange juice, sunflower oil, vanilla extract and salt in a bowl and mix them well with a hand whisk.
- Then, beat the mastic, mahlep, cardamom and 1 tsp sweet sugar in a mortar.
- Add all the ingredients in the mixer bucket and beat them on medium speed for 10 minutes.
- Flour a bowl and put the dough in by throwing flour on top as well.
- Cover the dough and we leave it for 1 hour in a warm place to rise.
- Next step is to divide the dough into 2 equal pieces and each piece into 4 smaller pieces.
- With these pieces make equal strips and join the ends all together on one side.
- Knit our braid by putting the first strip over the third and the second over the fourth.
- When the braid is ready, join the ends to close it.
- Follow the same procedure for the other half of the dough.
- Transfer the tsoureki to a baking tray and let them rise for 30 minutes in a warm place in the house.
For the coating:
- Put the milk and molasses in a bowl and mix them well.
- Spread the mixture over tsoureki with a brush.
- Sprinkle tsoureki with sliced almonds.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C and bake them for 30 minutes in the air fry.
- Once they are ready, leave them to cool and then serve.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Extra Tip No1: The milk for the pre-ferment must be warm.
Extra Tip No2: We make sure that our braid is tightly tied so that it won't spread too much during baking.
Extra Tip No3: Instead of molasses, we can use agave syrup.
Extra Tip No4: We can replace the sliced almonds with sesame.